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Ericsson Telephone Company (
ERIC) pushed the Telecommunications industry lower today making it today's featured Telecommunications laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.1%. By the end of trading, Ericsson Telephone Company fell 12 cents (-1.3%) to $9.44 on average volume. Throughout the day, three million shares of Ericsson Telephone Company exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.8 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $9.42-$9.52 after having opened the day at $9.47 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $9.56. Other companies within the Telecommunications industry that declined today were:
Parametric Sound (
PAMT), down 13.1%,
WPCS International (
WPCS), down 12.7%,
Dialogic (
DLGC), down 11.8%, and
eOn Communications Corporation (
EONC), down 6.7%.

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Ericsson provides communications equipment, professional services, and multimedia solutions to mobile and fixed networks operators worldwide. Ericsson Telephone Company has a market cap of $29.21 billion and is part of the
technology sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 15.8, above the average telecommunications industry P/E ratio of 13.9 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 5.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are three analysts that rate Ericsson Telephone Company a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and nine rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Ericsson Telephone Company as a
hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, reasonable valuation levels and expanding profit margins. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity and weak operating cash flow.